One might wonder why we’ve had to wait just over 270 years for Handel’s Theodora to return to Covent Garden. But return it has, in a spellbindingly original, emotionally shattering staging by Katie ...

At Hudson Hall, the director R.B. Schlather leans on artists and musicians from the community. The results have made for better opera. From left, Chuanyuan Liu, Song ...

In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...

George Frideric Handel — an immortal composer by any standard — wrote over 40 operas. For much of his career, they were his primary source of income and recognition. But these operas — written in ...